2009 Audi A5 2.0L Diesel · SA03 SON

The 2009 Audi A5 passed its most recent MOT on 6 January 2026 at 107,177 miles, but the maintenance picture is mixed. The current certificate is clean apart from a minor registration plate lamp fault, yet the preceding test on 31 December 2025 failed on four items, including a worn offside front tyre, critically thin rear brake pads, and rear brake imbalance. That failure came just days before the January pass, which strongly suggests the previous owner addressed the failures immediately to obtain a fresh certificate rather than undertaking a thorough annual service cycle. The trend is therefore resolving on paper, but the back-to-back failure and pass pattern indicates reactive rather than preventative maintenance. The mileage progression tells a consistent story. The car has covered roughly 17,793 miles in the last three years, from 89,511 miles in January 2023 to 107,177 miles in January 2026, averaging around 5,900 miles annually. That aligns with the vehicle's lifetime average of approximately 6,305 miles per year, confirming steady, typical use rather than long periods of dormancy or exceptionally hard driving. There are no suspicious gaps or sudden spikes in the recorded intervals, and the MOT history is complete with no missing annual tests, which supports a continuous and traceable service record. Repeated tyre wear advisories appear across multiple tests, most notably in January 2023 when all three tyres flagged were worn to or near the legal limit, including one at zero millimetres on the inner edge. Uneven inner-edge wear on the front axle typically points to tracking or suspension geometry issues, possibly worn track rod ends or wishbone bushes, rather than simple underinflation. A buyer should have the front suspension and steering components inspected for play and have a four-wheel alignment check carried out before purchase. Brake-related items have also surfaced regularly. Rear brake pads were flagged as wearing thin in January 2024 and then failed as less than 1.5 millimetres thick in December 2025, with an accompanying imbalance across the rear axle. Imbalance at the rear can indicate a sticking caliper slider, a seized handbrake mechanism, or uneven disc wear. The buyer should have the rear braking system stripped, cleaned, and inspected, paying particular attention to caliper pistons, guide pins, and the condition of the rear brake discs for lipping or thickness variation.